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There are so many nice and interesting pages on VT and I am sure I never can visit them all. I got nice ideas and I made very nice friends that way.

Shir Dor, Registan, Samarkand

Travelling is among the nicest things in my life and I would like to travel much more - the limit is the time available for travelling, much more than the money because in most of the world it is possible to live cheaper than in my home country and most of its neighbours...

Telfs (near Innsbruck), where I live

Some VTers even think I would not need to travel so much living in such a great place...

Theatre in Chernivtsy, Bucovina, Ukraine

Since I am rather lazy in building pages and knowing that there exist fine pages covering almost all places visited by considerable numbers of people I decided only to contribute own pages on less known destinations. I think it is complete nonsense to add an average London, Florence or New York page to the many existing excellent ones. Therefore I limit myself to "off the beaten path" destinations which I nevertheless find fascinating in many ways (maybe often because they are off the beaten path) and I try this way to share my personal impressions with those few members interested in these places.

guess where this is...

But you can happen to find me even on worlds most beaten tracks ....

..not far from Hitler's birthplace

I do not need to travel just for that but it is more than often offered on the way..... I can not help, it WAS by far my most popular page - more than 23000 visitors. I strictly limited myself to clearly travel related contents but The Censor overseas sees that differently, even contents like interactive road maps and contributions about chocolates were deleted. To prevent further annoyances I removed the remaining contents myself . Those who did the more than 23.000 visits to this page and never made any negative comment about it are my wittnesses.

After having fitted my most already by far most successful page to the needs of "political correctness" I got under the last years an other 62000 visits and in total 8000 ratings...

Ortler group

I was also lazy to post pictures, mainly because I had them almost exclusively as slides and first to produce a paper picture to scan it afterwards seems me too much effort just to compete with the many good pics which are available even of less known destinations both on the web and from other sources. But this changed a bit as you maybe noticed because since 29 November 2002 I have a digital camera. And you see, it has changed.

I like the interaction with other VT members and I am also happy to answer questions about the places I visited. And most of my VT friends know that I like very much to send and to receive e-mails. With some of you I had and have really lively and interesting discussions which are among the nicest and most rewarding I got out of VT. And I met already some of my VT friends (20 out of 89) personally, here at home in Austria and in Slovenia, Italy, Czech Republic, Hungary, Switzerland, Germany and Ukraine. And that was always very nice and interesting, too, and I hope to meet also all my other VT friends some day!

And one more thing: I often get e-mails asking me for info and if I am able to give a more or less relevant and useful answer I am happy to do so. But I would greatly appreciate to know a bit more about you from your VT page, even if you have no contribution about any destination on it. But you are not an anonymous, you have a name and a place where you are living at least, so please let me know at least that - you know it from me, too.

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Parisforless Mar 9, 2012 at 12:32 PM Report Abuse

Thank you for adding me as a friend

Svetlana Bellon
dannebro Dec 21, 2011 at 2:16 AM Report Abuse

Frohe Weihnachten und Alles Gute im neuen jahr !
om_212 Nov 16, 2011 at 9:10 AM Report Abuse

Happy birthday Lothar and many returns of the day. best, Olya
alza Nov 14, 2011 at 8:15 PM Report Abuse

Happy Birthday to you, Lothar! Hope all's well and that you have time to enjoy some travelling. Cheers!
olja1234 Nov 14, 2011 at 12:20 PM Report Abuse

My best wishes on your birthday, Lothar. Have a wonderful day.
RickinDutch Nov 14, 2011 at 9:40 AM Report Abuse

Happy Birthday Lothar!
samitbabu Nov 14, 2011 at 1:09 AM Report Abuse

Happy Birthday from Dubai, UAE.

Have a Blast !!!
pieter_jan_v Nov 14, 2011 at 12:51 AM Report Abuse

Happy Birthday greetings from the Netherlands. PJ
Daja123 Nov 13, 2011 at 10:49 PM Report Abuse

Happy Birthday Lothar! Wishing you all the best ... :-))
svetlanaM1 Nov 14, 2010 at 12:35 PM Report Abuse

Ñongratulations from Moscow! Happiness, Great health and a lot of merry days! Happy birthday to Dear Lothar:)